On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:35:51 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote:

>  I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on /
> 
>  When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get
>  a new and nearly identical timestamp.

No they won't. -a includes -p, which preserves timestamps. If you are
really concerned about an identical copy, use rsync.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

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